Maya Bar-Hillel

Maya Bar-Hillel
Maya Bar-Hillel
מיה בר-הלל
Born	1943 (age 80–81)
Academic background
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD)
Thesis	The Base-Rate Fallacy in Subjective Judgments of Probability (1975)
Academic work
Discipline	Psychologist
Sub-discipline	Probability; Decision theory;
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Maya Bar-Hillel (Hebrew: מיה בר-הלל, born 1943)^[1] is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[2] Known for her work on inaccuracies in human reasoning about probability,^[3]^[4]^[5] she has also studied decision theory in connection with Newcomb's paradox,^[6] investigated how gender stereotyping can block human problem-solving,^[7] and worked with Dror Bar-Natan, Gil Kalai, and Brendan McKay to debunk the Bible code.^[8]

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